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A TV Show About a Movie Blogger!

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (16)

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How would you like to watch television series about someone who sits in front of the computer ten to 12 hours a day, taking breaks occasionally to watch a movie, whose most exciting event of the week, perhaps, is getting into a fight with a colleague. On Twitter.

Welcome to the World of Movie Bloggers (add a healthy dose of making dinner, cleaning house, playing hide and seek and Legos with a two-year-old, if that movie blogger has a family).

And yet: Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) is developing a television series for HBO about just that. “Tilda” will be about a “powerful female online showbiz journalist with a no-holds-barred style.” In other words: Nikki Finke, whose blogging ability boils down to a series of “Toldja!”s and breaking Hollywood industry news a couple of hours before everyone else. And let me tell you: If you’re not the first to know that Robert DeNiro switched talent agencies, then you’re nothing!

Cynthia Mort (“Will & Grace,” “Tell Me You Love Me”) will be writing and co-producing with Condon.

I have no idea how this show will work, except perhaps to focus on celebrity cameos and give the blogger a passionate love life (ha!), because let me tell you: Bloggers get around, y’all. It’s like one booty call right after another. It’s hard to fit in news about what project Matt Damon is going to do next with all those one-night stands. And you just know that Nikke Finke is getting her some:


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Doesn’t it seem like shows about bloggers are being developed every six months or so, but they never actually make it on the air? I think that’s because, once the writers do their research, they realize just how little material there is to work with. Still, I’m not completely set against the series (it does have some decent talent behind it). Hell, maybe it’ll glamorize the profession.

Also, if they got Felicia Day to play Tilda, I’d be on that like Dwight Freeny on Drew Brees (83 percent of movie bloggers do not understand that joke).

(Source: THR)









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Comments

Also, if they got Felicia Day to play Tilda, I’d be on that like Dwight Freeny on Drew Brees (83 percent of movie bloggers do not understand that joke).

Well, with that gimpy ankle of yours, Dwight, I'd get there first.

SRY! U CANT HAS FELECIA!

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at February 5, 2010 2:41 PM


Is that Rusty in the pic up top? Is this the story of Rusty? I could get behind the story of Rusty. I could get behind Rusty, too, for that matter. Go Rusty.

Posted by: Lance at February 5, 2010 2:52 PM

Mmmmm, Drew Brees.

Yes, that's pretty much all I took from this. Something, something, something, hotness in black and gold. Sorry, D. I'm sure you had a point up there somewhere.

Posted by: Smokin at February 5, 2010 2:54 PM

I think that’s because, once the writers do their research, they realize just how little material there is to work with.

That reminds me of The Net in a fun way. There's just no way to make typing look exciting. But they tried, damn you. They tried.

Posted by: Melodie at February 5, 2010 2:58 PM


Wouldn't Jennicam make more sense?

Posted by: Kosmic Koyote at February 5, 2010 3:06 PM

Yes, one of the worst ideas ever.

Posted by: Cindy at February 5, 2010 3:06 PM

That photo of Nikki Finke cracks me up. It's so "artistic". I keep thinking that "Knights in White Satin" is playing in the background as she looks into the middle distance and thinks of "deep things".

Posted by: welldressed at February 5, 2010 3:11 PM

Oh man. I got really excited for a second. I thought they were going to make The Guild into a TV show. Stupid reading skills destroying my joy!

Posted by: AbbyNormal at February 5, 2010 3:13 PM

I think it would work, if they based it on my life. See, this particular movie blogger's life is... well, it's a whirlwind, folks. Evildoers and gunfights and assassins at every turn. And the women! Ohhh, the women are everywhere. All of them 20-something and adorable yet sexy. There's just so much more to it than simply sitting there and typing.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to watch more animated movies in my bathrobe. Maybe I'll eat some leftovers.

Posted by: TK at February 5, 2010 3:36 PM

Hahaha, welldressed, I thought the same thing about that picture. It's just so cheesy!

Posted by: Jelinas at February 5, 2010 3:53 PM

That photo of Nikki Finke cracks me up. It's so "artistic". I keep thinking that "Knights in White Satin" is playing in the background as she looks into the middle distance and thinks of "deep things".

Posted by: welldressed at February 5, 2010 3:11 PM

Ha! I totally thought the same thing. And where is the little picture of her in the upper corner in a profile pose with her hand under her chin?

Posted by: Katers at February 5, 2010 3:58 PM

I'm bored to tears by my life and I'm blogging and running rehearsals, gigging, running a business, and constantly auditioning. I don't know why anyone thinks writing is some interesting and mysterious process. If anything, writers look like crazy people staring intently, cursing, and wildy gesticulating at a small lit screen in a dark room subsisting on caffeine and/or liquor. Snoozefest, really.

Posted by: Robert at February 5, 2010 6:41 PM

Are you fucking kidding me? I actually met Nikki Finke on a professional basis a few times. She seemed nice at first but then slowly went completely batshit about a business deal and was completely unstable and could not form a rational thought. Dealing with her in person was like staring directly down Satan's asshole. She's like the female version of Kevin Spacey's character in "Swimming with Sharks."

That black and white picture above says it all. They say that a picture says a thousand words and all of those words in this case start with "Crazy" and end with "Bitch" - but not the one Buckcherry sings about.

That picture looks like what Norman Bate's mother looked like before she decomposed in a rocking chair. But, hey, people love watching trainwrecks so I'm sure it will work out just fine.

Posted by: loosecannon at February 5, 2010 6:57 PM

“powerful female online showbiz journalist with a no-holds-barred style.”


BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


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Posted by: Patty at February 6, 2010 10:52 AM

Bitch, pleeeeeeeeease.

Posted by: Az at February 7, 2010 7:18 PM